Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_Stylometer.jpg}}|thumb|Moderators sound like moderators]] Recently there was a big hullaballoo about the fact that Claude is watermarking their generated text. John Gruber called it a 'perversion of writing': {{Quote |text=My error was believing Anthropic that their...

Roshan: Wikipen Most people have a variety of objectives, proximate and ultimate, and a variety of virtues. The virtues are how one represents themselves to be predictable and trustworthy to others, which are how they are able to form coalitions. Crucially, though, these techniques for coalition-building differ in...

Roshan: Wikipen [[Environmentalism As A Means]] refers to the approach of using environmentalism as a mechanism to achieve other objectives. This is the dominant form of environmentalist thought and action in the United States with the biggest environmental organizations in the US focusing on ending clean energy...

Roshan: Wikipen '''Amber''' is my personal web archiver. If you found this page from a <code>User-Agent</code> string in your server logs, this is the crawler that visited you. == About == Amber keeps versioned, replayable copies of websites I read. The idea is to have my own personal Wayback Machine that I can use...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Pangram_detects_an_AI_passage.jpg}}|thumb|Welp]] Today I ran into a story I thought was funny. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185556 | author = harper | title = I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words |...

Roshan: Wikipen I read a recent thread which I think is fairly typical of a kind of motivated reasoning common in the US<ref name=in-us/>. == Home Cleaning == {{Tweet | name = Nicholas Decker | username = captgouda24 | text = Something I really like about America is how uncomfortable we are about servants. People...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Huggies_Overnight_Diaper.jpg}}|thumb|Huggies overnight diapers - a marvel of modern science]] Modern materials are amazing magical devices to create a prosperous society. They are ever-present to a degree that we have normalized their existence but they have transformed the...

Roshan: I recently read this article about a physician's husband who died of suicide after being denied care in what's described as a resort-grade facility. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981496 | author = Jimmc414 | title = My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US...

Roshan: I saw an interesting tweet today about who-marries-whom, that is which races in the US marry which other races. {{Tweet | name = Crémieux | username = cremieuxrecueil | text = Here's a big chart of the latest data on interracial marriage in America. It's an ethnicity-by-ethnicity breakdown of who marries who...

Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Citation Laundering - An Example Flowchart.png}}|thumb|An example of how you might do this]] [[Citation Laundering]] is the practice of taking a low-likelihood statement and citing it through an increasingly more reliable chain of sources until the claim looks like it is reliably...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:ChatGPT_Image_Gen_-_Dyson_Sphere_in_Construction.jpg}}|thumb|ChatGPT's conception of what a Dyson sphere might look like. It would be dark in a cosmological sense but it has to radiate. And obviously the direction of observation counts.]] It struck me the other day that I have...

Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Nano_Banana_rendition_of_Seattle's_Port_By_The_West_Seattle_Trail.jpg}}|thumb|The parking lot where I was stopped with my busted-up tire. The penny-farthing guy was there, yes]] I dropped by a friend's place to pick up some more Blackwell GPUs and everything seemed to be going...